While “negotiations” are ongoing, Russia is bombing us even harder. This is not a coincidence. It is a method. On one side, there is pressure on Ukraine to make “territorial concessions.” On the other, intensified missile strikes on civilian. 1/2

If you're a business owner interested in pushing back against ICE, this might be of interest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

JFC. The weakening of America continues.

If you set the deadline, you have the authority to admit exceptions. If folks who don't need exceptions whine about them occurring, they can grow the fuck up. Exceptions are exceptions because they are exceptions. Their existence does not invalidate the rule.

The disabled were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis because they knew people wouldn’t fight for us. They knew that most people see the disabled as an expendable, so it’s easy to commit atrocities against us. They called us “useless eaters” and threw us away

Consumer Reports ranks Teslas as the least reliable used cars. "The best of the worst [ten] was Chevrolet at a score of 40. But Tesla makes that failing grade seem respectable with its absolute rock bottom rating of 31, trailing Jeep by just one point.” futurism.com/advanced-tra...

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation” www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...

So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

🇱🇹 Belarusian special services are preparing a "false flag" operation using Lithuanian citizens, - Militarnyi In recent weeks, unknown individuals posing as Lithuanian intelligence officers have been offering citizens "earnings" in TG in exchange for carrying out an alleged intelligence task.

Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

The first family corruption continues.

The best people.

I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.

Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy. Enough to power 23 million homes! U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.

And even if you're right, the punishment for drug smuggling isn't death.

It shouldn’t be unpopular to critique your elected politicians. Y’all will never be free cause you’re still idolizing politicians who are WORKING for your rights. You shouldn’t be having a popularity contest on someone who votes for you to have healthcare.

Hey, if you’re a Seattle/WA author with a book coming out next year and you have a firm pub date, please let me know for potential inclusion in the Seattle Times’s 2026 book preview. (Space is limited but I’ll do my best.) Drop a link either in replies or at my email: [email protected].

Imagine a government so corrupt it is writing into budget laws that its Ministers are above the law for 6 years. Then they gave an edited copy of that law to reporters without that section. Now imagine that government is Canadian. That’s what is happening, in Canada 🇨🇦

DOJ has a new plan to attack the 1st Amendment. Indivisible isn’t backing down. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

Vaccines will protect us against all sorts of ailments but who will protect us from RFK Jr and his quackery? Bill Cassidy had a chance to do that and utterly failed and will be forever remembered as a coward.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/f... used almost a thousand agents for redaction

if anyone thinks having a dementia addled malignant narcissist putting his thumb on American corporations writ large will somehow end up well please see me after class

Roughly a decade ago, the term "atmospheric river" seemed to enter common usage. But today is the first time I ever heard reference to a specific strength—I guess we've got a category 5 atmospheric river in Seattle right now. Is this new, or have I just not been paying attention?

A Democratic Party not having an explicit platform of reforming the Judicial Branch after today is not a party I want to vote for. The strongly worded letters have to stop someday.

Lithuania on Tuesday ⁠declared a state of emergency and asked parliament to authorise military support for police and border guards after a wave of smuggler balloons ‍from Belarus ⁠repeatedly disrupted air traffic in recent months.

Books are power charges for your brain.

Oh look this one's fun. It's from the Canadian Medical Protective Association - this is the body that ends up holding the bag for legal bills for malpractice. It went up in 2020, but they've since taken it off their public page for some reason 🤔 web.archive.org/web/20201205...

Resistance can take many forms; get those slippers ready for your holiday travel. Travelers respond to Duffy video by wearing pajamas to the airport www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Trump figured out murdering people would get the Epstein files out of the news cycle.

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill. It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

It’s pretty bad when the only person praising your military doctrine is Vladimir Putin. Let’s impeach this fascist dictator before it’s too late for American democracy!

1-min action item! At the end of 2026, Medicaid recipients will be subject to work requirements unless deemed “medically frail”. This is very dangerous for people w/ME (including those w/Long Covid ME) who get sicker from exertion. Tell HHS to exempt pwME and LC: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

#EpsteinFiles He looks guilty as hell with each passing day. He is upset with Alina Habba stepping down…. Why ?

“I’d have no problem releasing the video” “I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.” 5 days apart 😬 (From @therecount.com )

What a strange coincidence

Why are the tax payer funded police not protecting the tax paying public against ICE terrorists..

Oh, look, just like Nixon’s enemies list from his "Political Enemies Project." They're lack of original ideas is astounding. I guess they're coming for all of us now.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

This ad by @crockett.house.gov for Senate is powerful for so many reasons. Not least of which it shows you the strength of a strong black woman who doesn’t blink after attack after attack by the most powerful man on earth. I hope #Texas picks her.

So it's gonna be Russia & the US against Europe in any future hostilities? Can't believe we even have to consider this!

Who agrees we should no longer take orders or direction of any kind from this illegitimate, disgusting, Supreme Court???

carbrain people want all our infrastructure focused on cars so they can pass through an area faster, meanwhile the people that live in that area walk and ride bicycles. it makes no sense to cater to passersby

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups. There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups. bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-co...

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

Why are there FIVE car washes around me? Maybe because private equity loves them. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...